e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Bogart, W. A. (William A.)
Subjects
Drug legalization.
Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bogart, W. A. (William A.)
by title:
Off the street : leg...
by call number:
364.177 B674o
Search the Web
Bogart, W. A. (William A.)
Drug legalization.
Drugs -- Law and legislation.
MARC Display
Off the street : legalizing drugs / W.A. Bogart ; foreword by Sukayna Pillay.
by
Bogart, W. A. (William A.)
Dundrum/A.J. Patrick Boyer Book, 2016.
Call #:
364
.177
B674o
Subjects
Drug legalization.
Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Series
Point of view (Dundurn Press)
ISBN:
9781459734975 (pbk.)
Description:
278 pages : 21 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-278).
Summary:
"One of the major issues of our time - the shift from criminalization to regulation of recreational drugs. The "war on drugs" has failed. The cost of trying to control the production, sale, and use of recreational drugs through the criminal law is too high: unjust incarceration, illicit markets, tainted substances, exploited children, and an untaxed industry. There is an alternative. The watchwords for governments controlling the consumption of alcohol, tobacco, junk food, and gambling are "permit but discourage." All are legal, but harmful consumption is decreased by targeted regulatory strategies. That same approach should be adopted for drugs. Legalization and regulation can attack the underground economy, drive down excessive use, provide revenue for prevention, treatment, and counselling, and better protect children. The author calls for a thoughtful, national discussion of the legalization and regulation of recreational drugs. W.A. Bogart is a professor of Law at the University of Windsor. He is the author/editor of seven books, including Regulating Obesity?: Government, Society, and Questions of Health."--Provided by publisher.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
364.177 B674o
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.